Surface初体验：Touch Cover是亮点

今天，我有一项使命：超越营销炒作对Surface进行考察，并抑制购买这款产品的冲动。Surface是微软（Microsoft）首次直接进军个人电脑硬件市场的产品（该公司的电脑配件产品除外）。我的计划？我的计划是走进微软位于拉斯维加斯时尚秀购物中心（Fashion Show Mall）的Surface游击店（pop-up store），把自己的手放在Touch Cover上，接着在不可避免地弄脏屏幕后扼杀心中对微软这款混合型硬件产品生起的任何欲望。


Touch Cover：Surface的秘密武器

在上述假想场景中，Touch Cover将成为让我回心转意的唯一因素。我知道Surface的材质很出色，我对这款设备的技术规格及其整体价值定位也非常满意（Surface免费预装了Office 2013 Home & Student Edition，可以扩展存储空间，并配备了USB以及HDMI接口）。

在我抵达店内后，微软的工作人员将Surface从启动界面切换到Word 2013 Preview的窗口，并自信地说道：“试试看。”

我马上打出三句话，其中只有一处拼写错误，而我之前并没有任何实际操作经验。我大吃一惊。

较之我所钟爱的机械键盘，Touch Cover所需的按键压力要小得多，尽管这有一种古怪的感觉，但同时也让人觉得不费力气。藏在我心中的技术爱好者——以及批评者——本来是要一边自鸣得意地走开，一边朝着微软公司的方向摇起手指，仿佛是说：“我就知道这只是个噱头，我就知道在一块缺乏键程或触觉反馈的超薄键盘上熟练地打字是不可能的。”

然而，我没有那样做。现在我正在自己32GB版本的Surface上写作这篇文章，同时在10.9英寸屏幕的右方开启了Xbox Music。我的银行账户为这台Surface付出了599美元以及消费税，因为Touch Cover是我无法反驳的亮点。

（值得一提的是，微软的工作人员还准许我拿着Touch Cover将连接在另一端的Surface吊起来，并且剧烈地晃动。当我这样要求时，他没有表现出害怕，而从我们身边经过的人显然很是惊奇。不用说，Surface跟Touch Cover牢固地连接在一起）。




Touch Cover：Surface的秘密武器

将两个应用程序并排放在一起的用处不能被夸大。

在使用Surface的最初几小时，我的感觉不是很舒服，但这种不舒服并非是在设备层面。这是我第一次使用触控版本的Windows 8系统，感觉跟苹果（Apple）的iOS或是谷歌（Google）的安卓系统截然不同。它是未知而陌生的，这可能抑制消费者的购买冲动——从而使微软激进的“游击店”战略显得更加重要（对我来说很有效）。

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Surface包装随附的快速入门指南鼓励用户去“了解触控语言”，这对Windows系统的老用户来说，感觉可能真是那样。Charms工具栏、收起、滑动以及其他Windows 8系统手势并不存在于我的肌肉记忆当中，数十年来都不曾存在。但当我学会这些手势赋予所有应用程序一种操作上的一致性时（从屏幕右方向左滑动可以调出设置工具栏，每个应用程序都可以通过这种手势操作调出自己的设置选项），我对这种触控语言的欣赏就开始被激发出来。

在阅读了数十篇关于Surface的评论后，我知道在该设备上安装传统Windows软件是办不到的。相反，Windows RT系统依赖于微软自有的应用程序商店。我立刻到商店里寻找那些在自己生活上不可或缺的应用程序，其中有Tweetdeck、Facebook、Spotify以及Skype，我只找到了Skype（顺便说一句，这个版本的Skype很漂亮）。后来我发现，Facebook跟Twitter已经被整合到系统预装的“People”应用程序中了。而代替Spotify的是Xbox Music，这款新服务融合了Spotify、iTunes、Pandora的功能以及搜索结果一目了然的特点。



Touch Cover：Surface的秘密武器


凭借触控功能，Windows 8的启动界面变得更加实用。

对于你所钟爱的应用程序，微软的应用程序商店里可能有变通之法或第三方选择，但也可能没有（我需要FlipBoard）。不过，我们不要忘记，在苹果的应用商店（App Store）于2008年上线时，其中的应用选择也是寥寥无几。所有主要的个人电脑制造商都在或已经推出了围绕Windows 8及其触控操作界面打造的引人注目的硬件产品，所以我们应该期待微软提供的应用程序能够在不到6个月的时间里充实起来。

下面是我的计划：在接下来的日子里，我将作为一名科技作者对Surface进行评论。不同的是，一些人手上的Surface是微软的公关部门免费赠送的，而我是自掏腰包花大价钱购买的。

鉴于我并没有义务为《福布斯》或微软来做这件事，我的动力因素之一就在于探索和爱好。我希望能够促进有关这款颠覆性设备的对话，并澄清一些误解。同时我也保证，我只为它取得的成绩发出赞美，诚实地指出任何不足之处，并尝试发现Surface的目标受众是哪些人。

这一系列文章中还有一个视角是需要注意的：我为iPad 3抛弃了两款高端安卓平板，微软的Surface是否有机会取代它成为娱乐消费设备以及日常生产力工具的双面手呢？

不要走开，我会在第一时间让你知道答案。与此同时，你又希望了解Surface哪方面的信息呢？请在评论里提出你感兴趣的问题。



双语阅读：Microsoft Surface: First Impressions and Shattered Misconceptions



译  何无鱼

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Microsoft Surface With Windows RT Hands-On Impressions

How does the Surface RT hold up after a weekend of use? We put it to the test.

I originally wanted to do this entire story with the typos left in.

My first day using the Touch Cover was plagued with so many typos, I figured it would be a fun way to show off how steep the learning curve on the new Touch Cover is. But then, miraculously, after a weekend of use I stopped making so many typos.



My words per minute is still nowhere as fast as it is on a normal keyboard, and dragging and dropping is a huge pain, but I’m pleasantly surprised with what I’ve been able to accomplish on the Surface’s Touch Cover. When the Microsoft employees tell you it has a steep learning curve they mean it. But it is learnable.

That steep learning curve is present in more than just the Touch Cover though. Just take my horrific day of setup as proof. For some reason, you need to use the same Microsoft Account as your Xbox Live Gamertag is connected to upon setting up your administrator account, or else you can't access your Gamertag. As far as I can tell, once you’ve created an administrator account, there’s no way to switch the administrator account – shy of reformatting your Microsoft Surface. Which I did. Twice.

Sure, it doesn’t sound like a huge problem, but I had to reformat my Surface twice in single day just because there was no clear instructions during the setup process. Weird glitches happened throughout the process (perhaps most bizarrely, it told me it couldn't accept @outlook.com addresses, which Microsoft invented.). It was a nightmare, and there is no way people like my parents would have figured out how to fix it.



But enough about the weird, frustrating setup process. I have been consistently and simultaneously shocked by what the Surface RT can do (and at times what it cannot).

With the tap of a button, the Surface can display a full desktop, which allows you to quickly sort through your file hierarchy. This is the kind of dream people on iPads have - a computer OS-style folder format for their files and media.

This alone gave me the impression that RT really was something just a bit more than a tablet. Similarly, the hardware has a few tablet/PC-hybrid tricks up its sleeve. The USB port works flawlessly, and allowed me to quickly add a keyboard when I needed to get things done faster than the Touch Cover allowed, and worked with a mouse as soon as I plugged it in.

everything in Surface RT is designed to be done by touch

Adding a mouse is hugely valuable, as the Touch Cover’s trackpad and small buttons are a bit hard to use. But ultimately, you may not need it – everything in Surface RT is designed to be done by touch, and frequently I found myself switching between touch and Touch Cover.

I cannot emphasize the mind-boggling accomplishment this represents. If Microsoft can successfully get us to simultaneously use touch and hardware for input, they’ve created a brand new way for us to use a device, and it frequently felt like something completely different from its competition.



Still none of that matters much if you just want to use the Surface RT as a gaming device, and unfortunately our initial impressions are not favorable. On the first day of using the device, the Surface had significant slowdown playing every single game we tried. Jetpack Joyride dropped significant frame rate whenever touch input occurred and Pinball FX was rendered virtually unplayable due to a delay in input and paddle action. However, later in the weekend I was able to play Jetpack Joyride without significant stutter, so further testing is required.

Some other snap judgments: the charger is tough to fit in the device, the speakers aren’t great, and finally the Surface is super easy to use as a tablet with a folded Touch Cover behind it.

What do you think? Has this hands-on piece made you more or less excited for the Surface RT? Our review should be posting later this week, so keep checking out IGN for all things Surface RT. In the meantime, feel free to hit me with questions in the comments.

Nic is the Editor of IGN Tech. He loves technology almost as much as the SF Giants, Freelance Whales, and P.O.S.'s new album. You can follow him on Twitter @nicvargus and IGN.

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这玩意儿除了看着来福之外实在没有任何优点。。。。。。手感太操蛋了。。。。。。

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原帖由 塌方 于 2012-10-30 13:42 发表
这玩意儿除了看着来福之外实在没有任何优点。。。。。。手感太操蛋了。。。。。。

没任何有点这夸张了
还是有些优点的

posted by wap, platform: iOS

刚才又试打了一下那个键盘，错误率不低，而且我试的那台z和w键居然颠倒了，比较费解

去家附近的苏宁体验过2次，太操蛋了，先入为主和用户习惯，让surface不堪入目，只能说出来混，迟早要还的